Being a dad I have to watch lots of tele­vi­sion that I wouldn’t nor­mally want to. I’ve sat through or heard in the back­ground hours upon hours of children’s pro­grams, some awful and some good. I can watch the “Won­der­pets” or “Oswald” or “Kip­per” [1. Kip­per is awe­some. A small British dog that causes my […]

There are many impor­tant things going on in the world today — the Iraq war, hor­ren­dously high gas prices, a ramping-up pres­i­den­tial cam­paign and other stuff. But this may be the most earth-shattering event of all : Which was a bet­ter human side­kick for Blue of Blue’s Clues, Joe or Steve? Steven Burns, [1. You can […]

I’ve loved “Lost”, and I’ve hated “Lost”. I swing like a pen­du­lum between these two extremes, and all because some tele­vi­sion writ­ers want to drag out some­thing that prob­a­bly only last another sea­son or two. Cur­rently I’m back to lov­ing it, but up until the sec­ond half of sea­son 3, I was hat­ing it, and […]

I was done with “Lost”, I was tired of it and never wanted to watch it again, and then what did Carl­ton Cuse and Damon Lin­de­lof go and do? Make me care again. You bas­tards! The peo­ple behind “Lost” must have noticed that our house­hold was get­ting tired of their lit­tle tele­vised social exper­i­ment, because out of […]

Bat­tlestar Galac­tica Sea­son 3 is offi­cially done and I have mixed feel­ings about it. It started off with a real bang and I just loved the occu­pa­tion of New Caprica by the Cylons and the ensu­ing struggle/escape from the planet, but once they got off-planet the show started to waver. It started off great with […]